Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka will renew their rivalry on Friday at Wimbledon.
Source: FoNet/AP/Kin Cheung
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic finally found out today that his rival in the third round of Wimbledon will be his old acquaintance Stan Wawrinka, and the organizers announced that the match will be played on Friday on the Central Court. Novak’s match will be the third on the schedule, so he will have to wait until Alkaraz and Mule, or Švjontekova and Martić, play their matches, so it is assumed that if there is no postponement – the meeting starts around 18:00.
This will be their 27th clash. Before all that, the Swiss player made a show on the field after the victory. He didn’t want to hear the score against Nolet (20-6). “Just don’t tell me the score,” Stan laughed as he made the statement and received confirmation from the reporter that he would keep that information to himself.
He vividly described what he expects from that match.
“I’ll enjoy it if he doesn’t kill me. It was amazing to watch the champion. We’ve never played on grass. I’m happy to have the opportunity to play him at least once on grass before I retire. It’s going to be a big challenge, I’ll have to play at a high level level and to push him to the maximum as I did in our previous matches. We’ll see what happens,” Wawrinka said.
Of the six victories he recorded, Stan took two to the Grand Slam finals. First at Roland Garros in 2015, and then a year later at the US Open. In both of those matches, the Serbian player won the first set.
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00:45 Srdjan Djokovic celebrates Novak’s title Source: Private archive
Source: Private archive